Thursday, February 20, 2014

IBM officer’s missing: State to handover case to CBI



BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is going to hand over the case of the missing senior Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) official Ibrahim Sharif to the CBI, reliable sources said on Wednesday.

The decision was taken by the State Home Department in the wake of the Commissionerate Police’s failure to trace the missing officer and his wife Salma Paveen’s continuous demand for CBI probe. 

Recently, the Commissionerate Police, after ending its inquiry into the missing of Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) officer Ibrahim Sharif, has written to the State Home Department to take further steps to trace the officer.

Twin City Police Commissioner RP Sharma said the city police didn’t get any tangible information about the IBM officer. The police team has already spent more than two months outside of the State to trace the officer, but in vain.

As it is an inter-State case, Sharma said, it needs to be probed by a higher agency which has branches across the country.   

Earlier, the Union Ministry of Mines had called a meeting at the IBM head office in Nagpur on Friday last in the presence of Ministry officials and IBM officials of Kanpur and Bhubaneswar where they discussed about Ibrahim’s missing. The officials had discussed about a high-level inquiry like that by the CBI to trace the officer.

Meanwhile, Ibrahim’s wife has already demanded the State Government to recommend a CBI probe into her husband’s missing case. Even she had urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to intervene into the matter to trace out her husband.

Ibrahim, who hails from Karnataka and lived with his family at Nigam Vihar in Phase-II of Kanan Vihar in Bhubaneswar, has been untraceable after he left for his office on November 25 last year.

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